
On a scarred Martian plain where myth and law intertwine, a young thief named Asir finds himself suspended from a wooden post, his wrists pierced by iron spikes. The sun beats down on the ancient hills dotted with trees that the long‑gone Fathers supposedly dropped from the heavens, while a stoic executioner waits
Language
en
Duration
~44 minutes (42K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
Jan 11, 2019
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1923–1996
Best known for the haunting classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, this American science fiction writer brought unusual moral and spiritual depth to post-apocalyptic fiction. His work still stands out for the way it blends the scars of war, questions of faith, and the long memory of civilization.
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